Brandon Cantu

Brandon Cantu agrees with Tiffany Michelle: he would also suggest that you download free poker from the UB site. The 29 year old player learned to play poker from his grandpa, and then he played in Oregon casinos. It makes sense that he now lives in Vegas since he can easily get to casinos for US players there.

Cantu got the idea to become a professional player four years ago in Vegas once he won over $750k for 1st place in a WSOP event. Amazingly, that was the first major tournament he ever played! It certainly wasn’t his last, though! He has done quite well in US poker rooms. Regarding the WSOP, he won a PLO event in 2009 for almost $230k and his second bracelet. That year he almost won two bracelets. He had to settle for 2nd place and $400k in Event 39, a NLHE tournament. His best Main Event finish was in 2008 when he was 20th for just over $250k.

He also has three cashes in the World Poker Tour including his first WPT title in the Bay 101 Shooting Star championship for $1 million. He received the nickname “The Bounty Hunter” because he also earned $30k in that tournament for busting six bounty players. I wouldn’t be surprised if the 6 players he took out of that tournament wished he played flash Texas Holdem for a living instead!

Where live tournaments are concerned, Cantu has almost $3.5 million in cashes. He is also a UB pro, however, so it’s natural to be curious about his results in online casinos for USA players. Because he prefers live poker, he actually doesn’t play on money poker sites all that often. When he does play, though, it’s obviously mostly on UB. His UB screen name is “brandoncantu”, and he can be found playing tournaments and a bit of high stakes cash.

Part of the reason for Cantu’s success in tournament poker is that he is a very aggressive player. If you’d like to follow in his footsteps, here’s some advice for you: don’t download free casino games. It would be way more worthwhile to get on a poker site and start building a bankroll.